Joan Straumanis

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OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES & SERVICE

Great Lakes Colleges Association
Board member, 2002 – 2004.
Science Advisory Committee, 1982 – 1986.
Academic Council (elected by Denison University Faculty), 1978 – 1982.
Organizer (with others), Women’s Studies Consortium and annual conferences, 1975 – 1986.


International Society for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Biology
Session chair: “Biological Mechanisms”, 2001.
National Genome Project, National Institutes of Health
Representative of the US Department of Education, Advisory Committee on Diversity, 2001.
Project Kaleidoscope
A national network, funded by NSF, FIPSE and private foundations, to reform undergraduate science, engineering and mathematics education.
Founder and member of Executive Committee, 1989 – 1991.
National conference organizer (with others), National Academy of Sciences, February 1991.
Co-Author, What Works: Building Natural Science Communities, v. 1 (STAMATS Publishing, Cedar Rapids, IA, 1991).
Change Agents Roundtable, 1999 – 2000.
Co-leader, organizer, Summer Institute on Institutional Transformation, Keystone, CO, July 2000.


Western Association of Schools and Colleges
Accreditation team, 1989.
Congressional Testimony
Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, U.S. House of Representatives: 1988 NSF Budget Authorization, Feb. 19, 1987 (excerpted in The Chronicle of Higher Education; see §Publications).
American Philosophical Association
Nominating committee, Central Division, 1985 – 1986
Selection committee, Mellon Congressional Fellowships (annually awarded grants to academic philosophers to serve as Congressional staff members), 1979 – 1986.
Committee on the Status of Women, 1976 – 1983;  Committee Chair, 1982 – 1983.


Society for Women in Philosophy
Founder (with others), Chicago, IL, 1971; Program Chair, 1982.
Intergovernmental Task Force on Women, Washington, DC
Worked on the Status Report of the Carter Administration Action on International Women’s Year Resolutions for the President’s Domestic Policy Staff (with Jean Lipman-Blumen), 1978.
Legislation: State of Ohio
Led successful campaign by my students to include sexual assault and rape counselors under confidentiality statutes, 1974 – 1976; signed into law 1976.